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For those curious, the John St John who appears in the most recent update has a Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St_John_(died_1302)

I think so too, if Louis would agree to it, which might not be likely if Charles is dead or imprisoned. Another likely enemy for Conradin is Charles of Anjou's sons, Charles II and Philip, or whomever else an unfriendly Pope can tempt with the royal title, like Peter III of Aragon. Another...

Well, he did recognise Conradin as the legitimate King of Sicily and advised his brother not to take the Pope's offer. Wikipedia says that Prince Louis and Berengaria were betrothed in 1255, before Ferdinand de la Cerda was born and she was heir presumptive of Castile, and they remained...

On the one hand, marrying a Hungarian princess (maybe Mary, Charles II's OTL wife) might aid him in enforcing the claims of his friend, Frederick Margrave of Baden, to the Duchy of Austria, and like Charles II get him a claim on the Hungarian throne. On the other, marrying a Capetian princess...

If it's a boy, Edward (for Edward's father), Eric (for Margaret's father), Alexander (for Margaret's grandfather) or Henry (for Edward's grandfather) If it's a girl, Eleanor or Margaret (the names of both Edward and Margaret's parents and grandparents)

Given that the sickly Princess Madeleine of Valois grew up in the Loire Valley region of France instead of Paris, and died two months after arriving in Scotland, would her chances of survival have been better had she been married off to somewhere in the south, like Spain, Portugal or one of the...

I see you're point of view, but I could imagine that William would still want an alliance with the Hohenstaufens and/or make the Hohenstaufens give up their claim on Southern Italy. I can also see Tancred not having exactly the same support he did IOTL, especially if Henry of Swabia doesn't...

If Bohemond, Duke of Apulia (b. 1181), the son of King William II of Sicily and Joan Plantagenet had survived (or existed in the first place, depending on what you believe) at least until his father's death in 1189 (also assuming that Constance was still married to HRE Henry VI to gain an...

Only if the Navarrese Beaumont party could overcome Catherine's mother, Magdalena of France, which they didn't OTL when she arranged Catherine's marriage to Jean d'Albret.

What if Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine had given John to the church?

POD: King Philip IV of France's youngest son, Robert, does not die, and becomes King of France and Navarre after the deaths of his brothers. King Philip IV of France (b. 1268, d. 1314) - married Queen Joan of Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305) 1. Margaret (b. 1288, d. 1300) 2. King Louis X 'the...

Albert Jagiellon, the second son of Sigismund I and Bona Sforza, survives. I have only made it as far as 1631. King Sigismund I 'the Old' of Poland-Lithuania (b. 1467, d. 1548) - married Barbara Zapolya (b.1495 , d. 1515), Bona Sforza, Duchess of Bari and Rossano (b. 1494, d. 1557) 1...

In 1597, Alfonso II d'Este died without male issue, and the Duchy of Modena passed to his cousin, Cesare d'Este, while the Duchy of Ferrara was reclaimed by the Papal States. However, Alfonso's older sister, Anna d'Este, was still alive at the time and had two surviving sons, Charles de...

IOTL, Byzantine Emperor Leo VI had an either stillborn or short-lived son named Basil by his third wife, Eudokia Baiana, who died in childbirth in 901. If Basil had survived, he would have been 11 at the time of his father's death, this still requiring a regency, but a shorter one than OTL...

So, I'd been thinking about, when Romanos III came to the throne, whether he'd just leave Zoe and Theodora to their lives in the gynaeceum or whether he'd send them to monasteries, as Romanos II did with his sisters. That, in turn, got me thinking about what if Otto III had lived long enough to...